University of New Mexico UNM Digital Repository 1979 The aiD ly Lobo 1971 - 1980 10-19-1979 New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 083, No 40, 10/ 19/1979 University of New Mexico Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1979 Recommended Citation University of New Mexico. "New Mexico Daily Lobo, Volume 083, No 40, 10/19/1979." 83, 40 (1979). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/daily_lobo_1979/113 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the The aiD ly Lobo 1971 - 1980 at UNM Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in 1979 by an authorized administrator of UNM Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. s ~.A' ,· ~~s -!> ') f) . )'if tl Ov'(\ ~)~~ 0 c..k j({ New Mexico obo Friday, October 19, 1 979 Because ofclosed waste-burialsite UN M storeis own nuclear waste The . t~:tnporary closing of ·.~ do not want new customi:lrs. state agency, said the Richland any. We're working with such wastes in the state. low-level nuclear waste site in Tabor said 1 'there has been no site was closed 14more for political low-level stuff." The University ships only low­ Washington state has deprived word ~bopt reopening the reasons than reality." Topp said UNM was uto the level wastes, emitting fewer than the UNM of its only nuclear Wasington site." He !;laid, 0 People do this to best of my knowledge'' the only 100 ntillirems of radiation per burial site. H'e said the University draw attention to the problem of institution in the st11te using the hour. UNM Radiological Safety transports about 30 55-gallon waste transportation. As for . Richland facility. A millirem is one-thousandth Director Wilbur Tabor· said drums of nuclear waste each health hazards, well, there could The University, he said, was of a rem. Exposure to .450 terns of Thursday that the Oct. 5 closing month to the site .. ''We have the be, but most likely there are not the largest shipper of n!J,Clear .. radiation can be fatal to humans. of the Hanford nuclear waste facilities to .sto.re tip to about 80 - -'facility, located near Richland, - ·drums-or three month's worth,-"'--­ W ashington,, has deprived the he said. "Then We're going to University of its only legal site have to take action.'' . for dis'posal bf nuclear wastes. "Ninety p~rcent of our waste comes out of the Medical Cen­ ter," he said, notably from CAUTION research labs in the Cancer Research and Treatment Center and the departments .of pathology, medicine and pediatrics. The Biology Department . .is largest contributor of nuclear waste on the main campus, he said. "But what they give us is negligible.'' RA.DIOAC·TIVE The wa,ste storage area, n()w in a locked area behind the School of MATERIALS Medicine Building 3, could be expanded if necessary, he said. The site was closed by "Our• {state) license would Washington Governor Dixy Lee allow us to store the waste in any Ray after two shipments were place on campus if we {the found to be improperly packaged Radiological Safety Office) had and mechanicaLproblems. were the key and had control of the discovered in one waste truck, space," he said. The Washington disposal site Tabor said his office operates is one of only three low-level · under a. license granted by the nuclear disposal sites in thetJ.S., state Envitonrnen tal and is the only site open to UNM. Improvement Division. The state Members ofPEt; became the entertainers during the.ASUMN Gong Show Thursday. Calling them­ The other sites, located in agency;"" he said, works under an sellles the ''OPEC Ducks, 11 the group performed -an original ballet titled. "Swan Lake Oil Spill. "· Nevada and South Carolina, have agreement with the federal Members ofthe cast Included, from left, S4zanne Cully, Joe Cicero, Paul Ho/usha, lillian Trujillo, Mel refused to accept waste createdat Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Willlams, and Ann kelly. The 'Ducks' placed third while Maf1/ Lou Menden-Hall captured first. (Photo tJNM. The facilities, Tabor said, Al Topp, spokesperson for the by Jeanette King) Regents doWn part-time faculty voting By Barbara Breed football player Robert Rumbaugh. increase in salaries that was recoirunended' The UNM Board of Regents voted Nov. 8 is the "target date" for receiving by the state Hoard of Educational unanimously Thursday to deny an applications for the pOsition, Davis said. Finance. amendment to the Faculty Constitution He added that the search committee will Davis said there is "strong support" for that would give voting privileges to part· meet weekly to review appllcations. a 15-percent increase in staff salaries. In time faculty members. ''What we're looking foris experience in the event the governor and the legislature The amendment, designed to pave the · the adrri1nisttation of a national collegiate decide on a higher wage increase for state way for p,art-timefacultymemberslo gain athletic program/' said JJavis .• employees than that recommended by the tenure, had b~n approved by two-thirds Davis, the si:larch committee and thf:i' board, the University should make an of the voting faculty in a reci:lnt- mail Athletic Council will make recom• effort to Include University i:lmployees in ballot. It was submitted to the Regents by .rnendations to the ltegents on. the ap· the larger package, he said . David Hami.lton, chair:tnan of the plicants. The Regents will make the final The ltegents approved the legislative Acadeniic Freedom and Tenure Com• decision.ofi who will fill the position.• budget request as it stands, with the mit tee. Davis referred to the NCAA inquiry, stipulation that the Universty attempt to H:amflton said the proposed amendment saying that UNM must submit a. report t<J obtai.n the 15 percent salary increases. would. napply to people who are fully the NCAA infractions comti:_l1ttee by Feb. In other action, the Regents a.... ·--......-r::e~a~ qualified and would be employed half·time 1, 1980. Davis said he has appointed Peter proposal by UNM Medical School Dean or more. It would extend to them thesame H. .1 ohnstone, an attorney with ·the law lJeonatd Napolitano to create a statewide kind or academic freedom presently ex­ firm of .Releher & McLeod, to conduct the advisory council for the New Mexico tended to £ull·time facultymemQers." investigation. Children'sPsychiatrlc Center. Board chairman :Henr'y .1aram:il1o said, Henry Jaramillo Johnstone, Davis said, "will prepa.re a The purpose of the council is to obtain however, "We have the tnechanism. to de.al . report to submit to tbe president's office more citizen input .in the center's with this and we can deal with it art an Davis said a search coiiUrtittee has beert and the Regents, artd until that time any operations and to help define the needs of individual basis. 1 really don't know why named to find a new athletic ditect.or. · information regarding the allegations w111 the center's patients, he said. we l:l!;led a. policy to talte care of this When Members of the committee, chaired by hE:! considered ptivill:lged irtfotnu1tion," 'I'he :Regents also approved bylaW$ for 11 that policy already e"ists, · Davis' assistant, William Weeks, are Jaramillo said "We certainly concur the Cancer · Research and Treatment UNM President William E. Davis Jaramillo; Linda Eistes, director of with action that has been taken, and Center, a financial agreement with the reported to the n:egents orlthe search iota women's athletics;: 'Clyde McDonald, past commend President Davis for the prompt Fiduciary Trust Company of New Ymk rt.ew athletic director to replace Lavon ptesiderit ofthe Lobo HoosterCltih; Aaron·· . wn he has taken.'j . autht>rfzing the company to manage: sornEi McDonald, who resigned Oct. ··~ after the J. Ladrnan, chairman of both the anatomy The Regents were presented with a $1.5 million in t]NM endowment .fund National Co11egiate Athletic Association d13partment and the Athletic Council; sutnmafy of the legislati'Ve budget requl:lst securities and hired architects to handl~ accused the UNM basketball program of Martin W. Fleck, president of the tJNM for 1980·81. Jaramillo suggested that bnprovements to Johnson Gymnasium alleged irregularities. Alumni Association and former tJNM UNM ask for more than the 12-percent and Mesa Vista Hllll. •• 1] ,,. ,.· [." P!ll\e 3, New Mexico P>~ilY Lobo, October !9, 1979 Puge2, New Mexico Daily Lobo, Octob¢r 19,1979 r-----------~------------------------------- National Briefs Yoga seminar slated for Espanola Senate races The devices, which police said fidavit to the court in support of 'Phe committee will give Carter wants could not have exploded, were their argument. Kennedy an organized and Teacher strike may be tallied found after bombs the Pue.rto But Rehnquist said there was professional political base to plot By Bill Ilobertson treaty voided Rican i11dependence group FALN nothing in Lhe legal papers that strategy and raise money. in Cleveland An upcoming yoga seminar in said it planted went off in would persuade the court to So far, he has had to rely on CLEVELAND {t]PI)-1'he Espanola, led by the "Mahan T.antric of WASHINGTON (UPI)-'I~he by computers Chicago and Puerto Rico rehear the case. informal and uneo01·dinated draft city's 5, 000 public school the Age," will bring between ~00-200 administration 'fhursdl'!y aslced A Wednesday night. organizations, such as the one t~achers went on strilce in a w.age people together on a psychic level, says federal appeals court to ovet~urn A FALN communique left on a that failed to win him a majority Thursday, leaving only one of the seminar's sponsors.